Bas Lijten
Bas Lijten

I am a software architect, public speaker, Sitecore MVP, husband and dad. Not in that particular order. Always learning. Always Sharing

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How to update the default hashing algorithm for Sitecore 9 to SHA512 using msdeploy

A few years ago I already blogged on updating the default hashing algorithm that Sitecore used. It’s ancient, unsafe and it’s for a change…

2018, Jul 23  — 4 minute read

How to deploy Sitecore web deploy packages using the VSTS Azure App Service task

With the introduction of the Sitecore 8.2, Sitecore also introduced some Sitecore web deployment packages (WDP), which are used by the…

2018, Apr 11  — 3 minute read

Solr: Error creating SolrCore when using the Sitecore installation Framework

Today I experienced an error while installing Sitecore 9 using the Sitecore installation framework: “Install-SitecoreConfiguration : Error…

2017, Oct 25  — 1 minute read

Gotchas while installing Sitecore 9 using the Sitecore installation framework

Sitecore released a nice Installation framework to install Sitecore, xConnect and configure Solr. I used this framework already a few times…

2017, Oct 25  — 3 minute read

Enable federated authentication and configure Auth0 as an identity provider in Sitecore 9.0

Sitecore 9.0 has shipped and one of the new features of this new release is the addition of a federated authentication module. I wrote a…

2017, Oct 23  — 4 minute read

A new Sitecore version has shipped, save your ass(emblies)

With the release of Sitecore 9.0 at the Sitecore Symposium, a lot has changed. We saw very interesting improvements on Marketing automation…

2017, Oct 19  — 1 minute read

Sitecore Profiling and tracing without an administrator or developer role

When working on Sitecore projects, there will popup some situations where you want to indicate performance issues. The out of the box…

2017, Aug 21  — 1 minute read

Revealing Robbie at the Sitecore SUGCON 2017 - Windows IoT, Raspberry PI, Cognitive Services

Today, Rob Habraken, andI have launched our newly and secretly built project at SUGCON Europ 2017. Something that never has been done before…

2017, May 18  — 1 minute read

Zero downtime deployments with Sitecore on Azure

From a business perspective, downtime is not desirable, ever. And if possible, you want to deploy as often as possible, even multiple times…

2016, Dec 19  — 9 minute read

Use the Sitecore Azure toolkit to deploy your on premises environment

Let’s face it: a lot of customers won’t deploy to Azure immediately, but will have a migration to Azure on their roadmap for the next year…

2016, Dec 13  — 4 minute read

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